United Kingdom - England

This course provides an overview of working in the United Kingdom and of the current economic situation in the country. It further discusses how the economic situation affects the workplace, how students can integrate into British working life, and how they can make the most of their internship placements. Topics include current political and economic climate, national legal framework, structure and workflow, integration of immigrants into the workforce, discrimination in the workplace, and comparison between U.K. and U.S. work experiences.

The course discusses probability, distribution theory, and statistical inference. It covers mathematical statistics as important discrete and continuous probability distributions (such as the Binomial, Poisson, Uniform, Exponential, and Normal distributions) and investigates properties of these distributions, including use of the moment generating function. The course discusses point estimation techniques including method of moments, maximum likelihood, and least squares estimation. Statistical hypothesis testing and confidence interval construction follow, along with non-parametric and goodness-of-fit tests and contingency tables. A treatment of linear regression models, featuring the interpretation of computer-generated regression output and implications for prediction are also covered.